The kids are out in force (a small force, but still), and our house is decked out with electric candles and a pumpkin that the boy carved himself!

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I had four entirely unexpected stretches of time completely to myself today. N. had gone to a birthday party for a classmate and they kicked us parents out (pick up at noon, bye!), so with A. cutting up a tree and my mom undergoing medical tests, I sat in an actual coffee shop for an entire half hour all by myself with nobody needing anything to ( Read more... )

I was in the hospital's maternity ward, becoming a mother. My tiny baby is now a first-grader, reading, doing math, swimming, and ice-skating ( Read more... )

My baby boy is going to Kindergarten!! He's starting this fall, being enrolled Right Now.
Wow.

Just so everyone knows - Nate had a semi-circle of chigger bites that were close enough to being around his tick-bite site that nobody is blaming me at all for panicking slightly. He's fine.

I just went to a lecture by Cory Doctorow, who is, depending on the day, a novelist (SF), a privacy rights advocate, a blogger, a writer, and so on. He gave a talk at Duke, which was interesting and thought-provoking, not the least because he mentioned usenet several times without seeming to realize that he was at one-half of the birthplace of ( Read more... )